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I want to know if there's a good reason for it. Like, for instance, if there's some kind of internal mechanism that covers up the cockpit windows from the inside. Or if it's simply due to laziness or budget constraints.

Issues regarding accuracy aside, all I'm really looking for from the DX Chogokin is stability and heft. I want a toy that I can both play with and display. As much as I love my 1/60 Yamato, I never take it off the shelf or transform it because it's just so light, flimsy, and floppy. Even getting it to stand is a challenge thanks to the loose hips. As long as the DX Chogokin is a fun poseable figure that transforms, I think I can overlook most of its accuracy inconsistencies. That being said, the double-hinged elbows are indeed a point of concern, and so are those what look to be ball-jointed hips. Studying the images, it looks like pressing the black button above the hips will allow you to detach the entire assembly and replace it with that blue plate. Very reminiscent of the recent Transformers MPM Jazz figure.

Hm... I'm not sure about that. It looks like the legs go up into the engines. The shape of the legs makes it so that storing them horizontally would both make the fighter mode thicker and give the forearms less room...

Ah! As I had suspected, in order to fit in the larger legs, they store vertically in fighter mode and go up into the engines. It's really reminiscent of the first 1/72 Yamato. I really wonder if there's really any more space in fighter mode to beef up the arms... They look really squished in there as is...

To be fair... is a proportionally accurate transforming YF-21 even physically possible? The model looks amazing, yes, but it's no perfect transformer.

I'm gonna be getting this even though I don't collect model kits, just becuse it's the YF-21. Release the DX Chogokin, you cowards!!! (^.^')

OMG. Will we get gorgeous 2D Valks on screen again?

Hm... I didn't preorder the Alto as I already own the Renewal. I wonder if the engineering has been changed enough to improve the hips and shoulders... Or is the VF-25 design just impossible to recreate in figure form without joints that get loose over time?

Finally got them in today! Surprisingly fun despite the parts forming. However, I really wish they had at least tampo printed the SMS logos...

Honestly, I couldn't be more excited for this. The YF-21 is my absolute favorite Valk in the entirety of Macross, and even though it already has a number of issues accuracy-wise, having a transformable YF-21 that won't collapse in my hands or fall apart is more than I can ask for.

If only their heads weren't a separate piece. If there's something the SD Infinity got right, it was having two separate heads of differing sizes depending on whether you wanted proper SD proportions or a perfect-transformation desk toy.

Now I'm worried that it won't be a perfect transformer like the SD Infinity. Not sure if it has a smaller Battroid head like the SD Infinity for transformation or if there's only one head that needs to be stored separately.

OMG. I love fully transformable Macross Valks! I already have the SD Infinity one, so I wonder why they went and made a whole new sculpt/line. Perhaps the old one was too complex and fiddly? The transformation looks to be even further simplified here. They also seem to want to make the design more standardized to fit in with the Valk designs from other series. Still haven't managed to get a Hi-Comical VF-1 till this day... (TT.TT)

I give up with amiami. It's so annoying how their site can't handle the server loads.

Still waiting for them to get to Plus and that YF-21 they teased all those years ago.

The YF-21 is my favorite Valk, and Bandai has yet again let me down...

WHAT ...I mean, okay, but ...WHAT. Also, it's not Bluetooth, but infrared. I highly doubt it's actually a functioning microphone. Probably going to be just a toy that plays music and voice clips like the other Proplica replicas. The infrared sensors are going to allow the two mics to communicate with each other for duets and conversations.

Oh, wow. I actually managed to get one off amiami.

I am so displaying them together with my K-ON! figures!

I think the term "scale figures" commonly refers to non-poseable completed PVC statues ala the ones from Megahouse, Alter, Kotobukiya, Wave, GSC, etc...

FINALLY! I can replace my trading figure versions! Here's hoping they release more pilot figures like Isamu and Guld, though that's highly unlikely...

Thanks a ton!

Looks like the 1D is still available on P-Bandai? What's the cheapest way to get one?

Is there any way to get the head in closer to the underside of the plane? Unlike the 1J, those head lasers seem to stick out much further.

Does anyone feel like the Skull Squadron emblem on the heatshield is slightly off center? Is it supposed to be like this?